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Publication details [#35818]

Banda, Felix. 1992. A lexical-semantic and syntactic-grammatical analysis of Zambian English: Towards a 'meaning-to-grammar hypothesis' of classroom second language instruction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (4) : 341–357.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | grammar1 | L2-acquisition | meaning | semantics1

Language as a subject

English, Zambian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

As Zambian English second language learners' scores appear to be significantly higher with regard to semantic than with regard to syntactic phenomena, it is suggested that English as a second language classroom instruction should follow the 'Meaning-to-Grammar Hypothesis'.